Universal to all of the DIY projects we help you with here at FCP Euro is the need to get under the hood. Much like opening the car door, opening the hood can be something we take for granted. It’ll always pop open, right? Not in our experience. As we went to open the hood on our VW Mk7 GTI for a...

Along with a love for European cars, many employees here at FCP Euro love winter sports. Our location in Connecticut puts us within shouting distance of countless mountains with powdery snow and scenic trails, though we aren’t the only people with that access. Whether you ski out west in...

There are few automotive manufacturers as prestigious and accomplished as Porsche. The company's founder spent decades engineering successful road and racing cars before building the first road car to bear his name in 1948. Beyond their cars, Porsche was and still is an engineering firm, tackling...

One of the best ways to kill time as an enthusiast is to watch and browse automotive auctions. Whether on a website, on TV, or in person, the cars for sale are often broadly different and can expose us to makes and models we’ve never seen before. They let us drool over classics, take inspiration...

Season's greetings! The leaves have fallen, and the hot chocolate is flowing, which means that it’s time for FCP Euro’s Wish, Wash, & Wrench Winter Sale. Load up on the best deals on our favorite car care products and tools, whether you’re buying for yourself or that enthusiast in your life....

FCP Euro is proud to partner with numerous companies that share and support our vision for a one-stop shop for all your European automotive needs. To put them all in a list and speak to them would take ages, and it's not something you’d really be interested in. Instead, we’re taking a quick look...

The BMW X5 was never supposed to be an SUV. Instead, BMW called it an SAV or Sports Activity Vehicle. The idea was to create a large family car with the body of an SUV but with the driving characteristics of their sports sedans. That driving dynamic was readily apparent in the original X5 and has...

Learning to work on and repair a vehicle comes with a new sense of excitement and fulfillment. Suddenly, the fear of breaking things is overwhelmed by the confidence of knowing how to follow directions and turn a wrench. Those internal feelings are a large part of what anyone needs to have to be...

Sports cars are wonderful. They allow us to experience the limits of adhesion, intense g-forces, and unending smiles as we motor along. The passions they stir from their race-winning pedigrees, beautiful body lines, and emotion-filled driving characteristics make them life-altering things....

  If BMWs weren’t the first thing you thought of when you heard “drift car,” we wouldn’t blame you. However, we have a whole lot to show you to change your mind. Drifters are constantly on the edge of control and chaos while sliding around at considerable speeds in competition. Professional...